Card-holder for freight-cars.



PATEN'IED OUT. 2; 1906.

I w. J. NORTHUP. CARD HOLDER FO-R FREIGHT CARS.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 22, 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTCE.

WALTER J. NORTHUP, OF SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARD-HOLDER FOR FREIGHT-CARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1906 Application filed December 22,1905. Serial No.292,956.

and useful Improvement in Card-Holders for Freight-Cars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to holders for cards used in freight traffic onrailways, and particularly to a holder for the reception of home-routecards on which entries are to be made at points along the route traveledby' the car from the time it leaves its home line until it returnsthereto.

The objects of the invention are to so construct a holder for thispurpose that the card may be readily removed and inserted and protectedfrom the Weather, also to make the holder in such a manner that itsparts may be readily formedwtnd assembled, and that the Whole shallconstitute a strong and durable device.

To this end the invention consists in the construction and combinationof parts substantially as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

The accompanying drawings form a part of the specification, and thereinFigure 1 reprerents the improved holder in front elevation. Fi 2represents a horizontal transverse section thereof, and Fig. 3represents a vertical The holder is preferably formed from castiron andconsists of the imperforate back 4, the grated front 5, the cover 6, andthe sheet of plate-glass or other transparent material 7. The back,front, and cover are cast separately and may be secured to one anotherin any suitable manner; but the back and front are preferably united bymeans of bolts or rivets 8, which pass through lugs cast upon therespective parts, as represented in the drawings, while the cover may besecured to the back-piece by bolts or rivets 9, which pass through earsor lugs cast upon the respective parts, as illustrated in the drawings.

Vertical ways or grooves are preferably cast in the meeting edges of thefront and back to form suitable holding means for the glass plate 7,which forms the front of the card-receiving space or pocket 10. Toprevent removal of the glass from the holder, one or more lugs, as shownat 11 in Fig. 3, may be formed upon the front of the holder back, asindicated in Fig. 3.

in a manner to project over the upper edge of the glass plate, and tohold the card out away from the back of the holder, so that it may bereadily grasped for removal, one or more lugs 12 may be formed on theinner surface of the The bottom of the holder is provided with openingsfor the ready passage of any dirt or water that may enter the holder.These openings may be formed in any suitable manner, as by casting onthe front and back of the holder at suitable intervals projections, as13, between which are the openings. The grating in the front of theholder may be in any suitable form, but consists, preferably, of thevertical bars 14, cast at the formation of the front.

Any suitable means for securing the holder to the side of the car may beemployed; but by preference offset lugs, as indicated at 15, are formedupon the back and perforated for the passage of screws or bolts into thecar. Lugs thus formed set the holder out from the wall of the car, sothat water flowing down the side of the car will not pass over theholder, but. behind it. In Fig. 3 the wall of the car is indicated bydotted lines at 16. This setting of the holder away from the wall of thecar also provides for the projection of the cover 6 at the rear of theholder as well as at the front and ends thereof. The cover also slopestoward the front to better shed rain.

The invention claimed is- 1. A card-holder for railway freight trafficconsisting of a metal back provided with means by which to secure it toa car, a grated front, vertical ways being formed in the ends of thefront and back at the meeting edges thereof, a sheet of transparentmaterial located in said ways and forming the front of the card-pocket,means for securing the front to the back whereby said sheet is securedin IIO ing-lugs at its back, a sloping hinged cover ingvthe card out inpositionvto be readily 1o projecting beyond the front, back and endgrasped for removal.

Walls of the case, the bottomof the case hav- In testimonywhereof I havesigned my ing openings therethrough for the discharge name to thisspecification in the presence of of dirt or Water that may enter theholder, at two subscribing Witnesses.

sheet of plate-glass forming the front Wall of WALTER J. NORTHUP; thecard-pocket, a lug projecting from the Witnesses: front well over thetop of the glass to hold it RUSSELL DIMMIoK,

in place and a lug on theback Wall for hold- R. L. HUBER.

